Join Ruth Ozeki—internationally acclaimed and award-winning novelist and filmmaker—for a special conversation with the award-winning host of “Press Play” Madeleine Brand, celebrating her forthcoming collection, The Typing Lady And Other Fictions. Known for her metafictional work and deep interest in science, environmental politics, global pop culture, memory, and meaning, Ozeki brings her signature wisdom to this spellbinding series of stories.
Spanning eras and geographies, the collection explores the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite forget, and the narratives that quietly shape us.
Featured Author and Moderator:
Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. She is the bestselling author of four novels: The Book of Form and Emptiness, winner of the UK’s 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction; My Year of Meats; All Over Creation; and A Tale for the Time Being, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2013 Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her nonfiction work includes a memoir, The Face: A Time Code, and the documentary film Halving the Bones. A longtime Buddhist practitioner, Ruth is affiliated with the Everyday Zen Foundation. She is now professor emerita of English language and literature at Smith College, where she was the Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities.
Madeleine Brand
Madeleine Brand is the host of the award-winning daily news and culture show, Press Play. On the show, she covers national, international and local stories through a Southern California lens. She is also the co-host of KCRW’s legal affairs podcast,The Legal Eagle Files.
Madeleine has hosted and reported for NPR and for affiliate stations for more than 30 years. She has a master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where she also taught documentary radio. Madeleine’s undergraduate degree is from the University of California Berkeley, where she graduated with honors in English.
